a.kitchen+bar

French-inflected technique meets seasonal American cooking at this corner Rittenhouse staple, run by Ellen Yin's High Street Hospitality Group. Executive Chef Eli Collins has been leading the kitchen for over seven years, and the menu shows it: gougères, chicken liver tart with truffle honey and apple mustard, bavette steak, and a double-patty cheeseburger that belongs on any short list of the city's best. The wine program is the other reason to come, a natural-wine-forward list that has landed on Wine Enthusiast's Top 100 Wine Restaurants more than once. It lives inside a hotel but draws the neighborhood like a corner bistro should.